Zach's Adventures: Slow Week

Wednesday, February 10

Slow Week

I think I've realized how life is going to unfold here: I stay around campus for a week and dont go in the city, start to feel bad about not exploring more, the next week I go out and explore everyday, start to feel exhausted and worry about spending money, then hunker down again. This was a hunker week (sounds more like chunker - poopskeyyuns).

Watched the Super Bowl Sunday night, ended at like 4:30 AM here, but I was psyched to see some football! Current list of what America does better - coffee, pizza, availability of chapstick, football, and cheapness of beer. Had class all day Monday, work and class yesterday and some good old fashioned school-aided (free beer) rowdy karaoke last night, and class and around campus all day today. I'm in Rome this weekend before being away for the next 4.

Now I even have to worry about school less. I was thinking, if I didnt get into PA at Marquette, I'd be doing a graduate PA program somewhere else, and then I would probably need to send them my transcript from here so I'd need to keep acceptable grades. Now i just need to maintain a C...wonderful!

Seeing Dave Matthews in a couple weeks, so psyched. After binging on concerts this summer, it was tough to wind down to only one last semester and now I'm dying for another one so this will be my fix until summer. Been researching music festivals for this summer recently and it just makes me itch even more for some sunshine, tunes out on the grass, disc golf, sunglasses and bandanas and sandals, and one last summer with my friends!

There are about 100 new pictures in the Rome album and an album from the broccoli festival for everyone to check out. I'm going to finish up the post with some of my favorites.

I can literally smell spring, I'm visiting Naples/Sorrento/Pompeii/Venice/Istanbul/Cairo/Jerusalem all within the next month, I'm accepted into PA, baseball season is starting soon, I live in Rome, and I have a comfortable pair of Birks, mug of coffee, and a Beatles album constantly at my disposal. Life is phenomenal, and I'm thinking I'll be living on this high for the next...3 months or so.

Trevi Fountain, absolutely magical

The big guy himself

Twin churches in Piazza Del Popolo

Town hosting Brocolli Fest - if thats not Italy then I really dont know what is

All about this right here, I'm a big fan of Broccoli Festival

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BillyFebruary 16, 2010 at 4:40 PM
In all fairness I've never been to Europe but pretty sure you left the greatest thing America does off that list: BASEBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol hope Rome is going well which it sounds like it is and I can't believe that you can get 30 people in Rome to play euchre with you and I can't find 4 people in genny who even know what it is... not fair.
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I'm Zach D'Arienzo, ethnically Italian with minimal supporting practices to show my heritage pride, besides a little pinch of blood. I'm one of six kids, three sisters and two brothers, all of whom are my best friends and the most influential people in my life. My parents, Steve and Eileen, are the two people who I could not give enough thanks and praise for directing me towards where I stand in my life. I've never traveled outside the US, but I have taken a month long cross country trip through the central and northern United States in August 2007. On the outset of this study trip, I have negligible knowledge pertaining to basic travel practices or cultural living in Europe. I do speak Italian fairly well however.

I would describe myself as an adventurous, fun-seeking person that lives with a large focus on working hard and playing on the same level. I go to Marquette University for Biomedical Sciences and Physician Assistant Studies. I grew up in Rochester, NY in a suburb named Irondequoit. I love submersing myself in music and friends and enjoying a conversation mutually instead of a TV show. I love meeting new people and hearing anything that they have to tell me about their life. I need to stay busy and active, and the minute I feel like relaxing has moved beyond that and into time being wasted, I must get up and do something fun or productive. I'm excited to spend a lot of time in a culture that emphasizes enjoying one another's company, time with people that may choose a glass of wine and some cheese in the piazza instead of a movie.

People have consistently asked me why I chose to study abroad, and the simple answer is to have fun. I came into Marquette with sophomore standing due to AP credit, but I could not get ahead and graduate early because I had to wait to apply to the PA program in my sophomore year. Consequently, I finished all my Pre-PA requisites in my first three semesters and found myself with no agenda for Spring 2010. Therefore, why sit around Milwaukee biding my time instead of adventuring around Europe and having one of the best experiences available to me? Thus, my main desire for this escapade is to grow as a person, make some memories, and receive some amazing tales.

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